Texas at the Potomac talked to economists and sifted through studies on the topic to find ten other reasons the Texas has added jobs – and most of them have little or nothing to do with state policy. Find out what else may have helped along the Lone Star state’s recovery, and why some economists say you should take Texas’ success with a grain of salt.

Texas at the Potomac talked to economists and sifted through studies on the topic to find ten other reasons the Texas has added jobs – and most of them have little or nothing to do with state policy. Find out what else may have helped along the Lone Star state’s recovery, and why some economists say you should take Texas’ success with a grain of salt.

U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder’s energy price task force is monitoring gasoline pump prices to make sure that any savings from lower crude oil prices are passed along to consumers, White House press secretary Jay Carney said today.

En route to presidential events in Indiana and Kentucky, Carney told reporters aboard Air Force One that the feds will be coordinating with state attorneys general to see if gas stations lower their prices as quickly as they raised them during the speculation-fed run-up in crude oil prices over recent months.

A lot of Texans believe that the recent run-up in energy prices is good for the state’s economy. But Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke today said that “higher oil prices are a kind of a tax” that could slow the nation’s recovery from recession. …